Osman Zeki Üngör was a Turkish composer,violin virtuoso and lyricist,who served as the first conductor of the Presidential Symphony Orchestra of Turkey.
Mehmet Akif Ersoy was a Turkish poet,writer,academic,politician,and the author of the Turkish National Anthem. Widely regarded as one of the premiere literary minds of his time,Ersoy is noted for his command of the Turkish language,as well as his patriotism and role in the Turkish War of Independence.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish director,screenwriter,photographer and actor. His film Winter Sleep (2014) won the Palme d'Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival,while six of his films have been selected as Turkey's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
Mehmet Kemal Ağar is a Turkish former police chief,politician,government minister and leader of the Democratic Party. He was a police officer who rose to General Director of the General Directorate of Security,serving from 1993 to 1995,before entering parliament and serving as a government minister in 1996. Under his reign a close relationship developed between the deep state in Turkey,the Grey Wolves,and the Turkish mafia. It took 15 years until he was tried and sentenced for criminal activities relating to the 1996 Susurluk scandal;he was incarcerated in April 2012 but already released on probation in April 2013.
Mehmet Emin Yurdakul was a Turkish nationalist writer,poet and politician. Being an ideologue of Pan-Turkism,his writings and poems had a major impact on defining the term vatan (Fatherland).
Ertuğrul Günay was the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey.
Mehmet Recep Peker was a Turkish military officer and politician. A pragmatic modernist,he served in various ministerial posts and finally as the Prime Minister of Turkey between 1946 and 1947.
Ersoy is a Turkish surname. Er means man or soldier and soy means ancestry. Notable people with this surname include:
Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha was a grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire and served from 1794 to 1798.
Osman Nuri Gündeş was a Turkish intelligence official in the National Intelligence Organization (MIT). He was chairman of the MIT's Istanbul region,retiring in 1986. He was later chief intelligence adviser in the mid-1990s to Prime Minister Tansu Çiller.
Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University,abbreviated as MAKU,is a public university located in Burdur,Turkey. It was established in 2006. It is named after Mehmet Akif Ersoy.
The Mehmet Akif Ersoy Literature Museum Library is a literary museum and archive dedicated to Turkish literature and named after the poet Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873–1936),the Turkish poet of the Turkish National Anthem. Located in Ankara,Turkey,the museum was established by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and opened on March 12,2011,the 90th anniversary of the adoption the national anthem.
"İstiklâl Marşı" is the national anthem of both the Republic of Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. It was officially adopted by the Grand National Assembly on 12 March 1921—two-and-a-half years before the 29 October 1923 establishment of the nation—both as a motivational musical saga for the troops fighting in the Turkish War of Independence,and as an aspirational anthem for a Republic that was yet to be established.
Mehmet Naci Bostancı is a Turkish politician and academic who currently serves as the Deputy Speaker of the Grand National Assembly along with Şafak Pavey,Koray Aydın and Yurdusev Özsökmenler as of 9 July 2015. He was formerly one of the five parliamentary group leaders of the Justice and Development Party (AKP),having served as an AKP Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Amasya since the 2011 Turkish general election.
Mehmet Nuri Yamut Pasha was a Turkish general,who became the 20th Commander of the Turkish Armed Forces on 5 June 1950. He was a career Artillery officer. In 1943 he was appointed to the 2nd Corps Command in Gallipoli. During the 2nd Corps Command,he sold his house for the Turkish soldiers who were killed in the Battle of Gallipoli,and built a monumental grave. He served as Chief of General Staff between 1950 and 1954 for a four-year period. It is the first commander-in-chief of the Turkish Land Forces Command since the transition from the Ottoman army to the modern-regular army. He then retired and entered the Parliament from the Justice Party. TBMM X. and XI. He is a deputy in Istanbul.
İrfan Gürpınar was a Turkish politician. He was aligned center-left and served two brief terms as Turkey's tourism minister.
Seyyid Medeni Mehmed Nuri Efendi was an Islamic scholar,qadi (judge),and the last Sheikh-ul-Islam of the Ottoman Empire.
National symbols of Turkey are symbols used to represent the citizens of the Republic of Turkey in Turkey and around the world.
The Mor Ephrem Syriac Orthodox Church is a Syriac Orthodox church in Yeşilköy on the European part of Istanbul. Opened in 2023,it is the first church built since the foundation of the Republic of Turkey. It is dedicated to Ephrem the Syrian.
